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ELI5 AvalancheJ Introduction
AvalancheJ is an experimental Java library for exploration and integration with the AVAX ecosystem. Important - Please ReadStill in its initial development stages, AvalancheJ ...
Getting started with AVAX Toolbox
tl;dr; Clone both avalancheJ and avax-toolbox into the same parent directory. cd to the avax-toolbox dir and run gradle build You can find a list of AVAX Toolbox program...
The Sovereign OG Hodler’s Airgapped Avalanche Ledger Nano S+ Setup Tutorial
So you finally bought a Ledger hardware wallet to keep your precious fat Avalanche AVAX bags safe. Congratulations! If you made the extra effort to buy a hardware wallet, it m...
shafs – SHA256 a filesystem and store it on SQLite. Find duplicate files, organize your data
shafs is a tool to help you SHA256 an entire filesystem, file by file, storing its hash and file size in a SQLite database. Dependencies shafs requires sqlite3 On Ubuntu ...
Generate AVAX addresses and keys from a mnemonic phrase in Python
While playing with AVAX programming in Python, I wanted to have some wallet functionality on the Linux command line. It's easily done from Javascript, since Ava Labs provides ...
avax-python – Python utils for AVAX cryptocurrency and Avalanche network exploration
avax-python is a Python library and set of utils for the exploration of the Avalanche AVAX cryptocurrency and its network. The crypto.bi avax-python project began as ...
Building the Haskell cardano-node on Linux
tl;dr; Jump straight to the build instructions The Details Looking forward to the Haskell mainnet, the next step in the Cardano project, I've begun exploring the cardano-...
Bitcoin Blockchain SQL Schema for MySQL
This SQL schema was created for Crypto.BI Toolbox. The same, or similar, SQL schema can be used by anyone exploring Bitcoin with the help of a MySQL RDBMS. Although we didn't ...
Bitcoin: The mother of all cryptocurrencies
On January 12 2009, an individual, or group, using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto, announced that the first Bitcoin transaction had taken place. Ten Bitcoins had been magically...
ELI5 Proof of Stake (PoS) – How does PoS work?
In the cryptocurrency universe, Proof of Stake (PoS) is one of the most popular alternatives to the Proof of Work (PoW) family of consensus mechanisms. While PoW systems invest la...